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The Trump judge ruling on the Mar-a-Lago affair is defying established law
September 19, 2022
An op-ed co-written by Laurence Tribe: Judge Aileen Cannon’s two rulings in the Mar-a-Lago affair offer a master class in illustrating how a young and…
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Column: The Mar-a-Lago judge’s latest opinion is as atrocious as legal experts say it is
September 19, 2022
Thursday’s 10-page opinion by U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon denying the government’s motion for a stay in the Mar-a-Lago documents case is being savaged…
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The federal judge who ordered that a special master be assigned to examine documents retrieved by the FBI last month from former President Donald Trump’s…
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Chief Justice Roberts Is Officially Irrelevant
September 14, 2022
Bloomberg Law – Chief Justice Roberts, I have a message from your former professor: You are no longer the star student. “Having had both John…
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The big takeaway from Trump’s legal filings: He has no defense
September 13, 2022
The Washington Post – The Trump legal brain trust’s latest filing has been met with proper ridicule. From its characterization of the documents retrieved from…
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DOJ files to appeal special master ruling on Trump papers
September 9, 2022
New York Daily News – The Justice Department on Thursday asked a federal judge in Florida to tweak a ruling that has limited the government’s…
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‘Lawlessness’: Tribe condemns ‘courts faithful to Trump’
September 8, 2022
MSNBC – MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell speaks to Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe about the ruling by Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon naming a special master to…
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Judge strikes down 1931 Michigan law criminalizing abortion
September 8, 2022
The Washington Post – A judge on Wednesday struck down Michigan’s 1931 anti-abortion law, months after suspending it, the latest development over abortion rights in…
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The Trump ‘special master’ ruling violates the principle that no-one is above the law
September 7, 2022
The Guardian – An op-ed co-written by Laurence Tribe: The best thing one can say about Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision Monday appointing a special master…
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Republican apologists’ defenses of Trump lies go unchallenged. Still.
September 6, 2022
Of all people, the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Michael McCaul (Tex.), should know something about the danger posed by an…
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Harvard legal scholar Laurence Tribe slams judge’s decision to allow special master in Trump case as ‘utterly lawless’
September 6, 2022
A Harvard legal scholar ripped a federal judge’s decision that granted former President Donald Trump’s request to appoint a special master to review materials seized…
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White House fires back at Republicans planning to challenge student loan forgiveness
September 6, 2022
The Biden administration is firing back at Republicans considering bringing a legal challenge against President Joe Biden’s historic move to forgive the student debt of…
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A federal judge in Florida ruled Monday that a special master will review the documents seized in last month’s FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago…
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Republicans may challenge student loan forgiveness. Uncertainty for borrowers is ‘considerable,’ says Harvard lawyer
September 2, 2022
A number of Republican legislators may bring a legal challenge against President Joe Biden’s historic announcement last week that he’d forgive the student debt of…
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Republicans are readying lawsuits to block Biden’s student debt plan
September 1, 2022
Republican state attorneys general and other leading conservatives are exploring a slew of potential lawsuits targeting President Biden’s plan to cancel some student debt —…
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Judge Aileen Cannon: Trump’s request for ‘special master’ puts one of his judicial appointees in the spotlight
August 31, 2022
Former President Donald Trump’s request for a “special master” to oversee the review of evidence gathered in the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago estate has…
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Biden shows the way forward.
August 31, 2022
President Biden continued his newly aggressive tone in a speech in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. He condemned GOP threats of violence intended to dissuade the DOJ…
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Former President Donald Trump was mercilessly mocked after demanding that he be retroactively declared the 2020 presidential election winner or be allowed to hold a…
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The redacted FBI affidavit released on Friday regarding the Aug. 8 search of the defeated former president’s Florida estate reveals many things about Donald Trump’s…
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Forget about inflation, abortion, job growth or the economy. The real issue is who will be indicted first — Donald Trump or Hunter Biden? The…
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Harvard Law professor mocked after thanking Biden for student loan forgiveness, which critics are calling an Ivy League ‘bailout’
August 29, 2022
Do Harvard-trained lawyers deserve to have any portion of their student loans canceled under the Biden administration’s new debt-relief plan? That’s the question some are…